Mac Vs PC commercials - Cancel or Allow?

MacVsPCcommercials · 64.9K views · 2009-10-28 · 0:32

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Overview

A short clip parodying Windows Vista's cancel-or-allow security prompts, in the style of Apple's Mac vs PC ads.

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HN mentions it as a joke when Apple's own security prompts or Gatekeeper restrictions annoy users.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2020–2026

Topics

Satire & parody UX & UI design

What people said

ghgr · 2026-02 · Joke / meme
> How far OSX has come since the days of the “cancel or allow” parody advert. In case you're wondering like me, this is the advert in question: [VIDEO]
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ndiddy · 2025-11 · Joke / meme
> The ridiculous song and dance of "File is dangerous, delete it?"->No->Settings->Security->Open Anyway->"File is dangerous, delete it?"->No is getting ridiculously old after literally doing it a hundred times at this point. And soon enough Apple will inevitably come up with some additional hurdle like, idk, closing Settings three times in a row while reading a fingerprint during an odd numbered minute. > So in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected or accept my own computer that I paid for will deliberately waste my time constantly. Remember when Apple made fun of Microsoft for doing exactly this? [VIDEO]
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xtracto · 2020-02 · Joke / meme
Macs permission prompts remind me of this: [VIDEO] There is several software that doesn't work with Catalina. In my case RingCentral meetings. But in general people shouldn't downgrade to it... it is 100% a downgrade, as it removes features available in the previous version.
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